Courses for Fall 2016 | Department of Philosophy

	Title	Instructor	Location	Time	Description	Cross Listings	Fulfills	Registration Notes
PHIL 001-001	INTRO TO PHILOSOPHY	STEINBERG, STEPHEN	STITELER HALL B26	MW 1000AM-1100AM	Philosophers ask difficult questions about the most basic issues in human life. Does God exist? What is real? What can we know about the world? What does it mean to have a mind? Do I have free will? What should I do? How should we live together? Do our lives have meaning? This course is an introduction to some of these questions and to the methods philosophers have developed for thinking clearly about them.		Hum & Soc Sci Sector (new curriculum only)	SECTION ACTIVITY CO-REQUISITE REQUIRED; HUMANITIES & SOCIAL SCIENCE SECTOR
PHIL 001-601	INTRO TO PHILOSOPHY	WILLISON, ROBERT	WILLIAMS HALL 25	TR 0430PM-0600PM	Philosophers ask difficult questions about the most basic issues in human life. Does God exist? What is real? What can we know about the world? What does it mean to have a mind? Do I have free will? What should I do? How should we live together? Do our lives have meaning? This course is an introduction to some of these questions and to the methods philosophers have developed for thinking clearly about them.		Hum & Soc Sci Sector (new curriculum only)	HUMANITIES & SOCIAL SCIENCE SECTOR
PHIL 002-001	ETHICS	LORD, ERROL	ARTS, RSRCH & CULTR - 3601 LO 208	MW 1200PM-0100PM	Ethics is the study of right and wrong behavior. This introductory course will introduce students to major ethical theories, the possible sources of normativity, and specific ethical problems and questions. Topics may include euthanasia, abortion, animal rights, the family, sexuality, bioethics, crime and punishment and war.		Society sector (all classes)	SECTION ACTIVITY CO-REQUISITE REQUIRED; SOCIETY SECTOR
PHIL 002-301	ETHICS	MEYER, MILTON	VAN PELT LIBRARY 302	TR 1030AM-1200PM	Ethics is the study of right and wrong behavior. This introductory course will introduce students to major ethical theories, the possible sources of normativity, and specific ethical problems and questions. Topics may include euthanasia, abortion, animal rights, the family, sexuality, bioethics, crime and punishment and war.		Society sector (all classes)	SOCIETY SECTOR; FRESHMAN SEMINAR; FRESHMAN SEMINAR
PHIL 003-401	HIST ANCIENT PHILOSOPHY	MEYER, SUSAN	STEPHEN A. LEVIN BUILDING 111	TR 0900AM-1030AM	This course is an introduction to philosopy in the ancient world. While today, philosophy is considered a branch of academic inquiry, many of the ancient Greeks and Romans, however, held a radically different conception of the discipline. For them, philosophy was nothing less than an entire way of life--not just a set of doctrines or arguments, but an orientation and set of lived practices, a conscious and continual reforming of the self in light of some principle or principles. In this course, we will examine the major movements and figures of ancient philosophy. Major figures will include Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, the Stoics, the Epicureans, and the Skeptics.	CLST103401	History & Tradition Sector (all classes)	HISTORY & TRADITION SECTOR; SENIOR ASSOCIATES
PHIL 004-601	HISTORY OF MODERN PHILOS	ROSENTHAL, SAUL	FISHER-BENNETT HALL 231	TR 0630PM-0830PM	This course is an introduction to a few central themes in philosophy in the 17th and 18th centuries, and to some of the crucial thinkers who addressed those themes. Topics to be covered may include, among others, the nature of the human being (including the human mind), the relationship between God and the created world, the nature of freedom, and the relations among natural sciences, philosophy and theology in this rich period of human history.		History & Tradition Sector (all classes)	HISTORY & TRADITION SECTOR
PHIL 006-401	FORMAL LOGIC II	WEINSTEIN, SCOTT	FISHER-BENNETT HALL 140	TR 1200PM-0130PM	An introduction to first-order logic including the completeness, compactness, and Lowenheim-Skolem theorems, and Godel's incompleteness theorems.	PHIL506401
PHIL 008-401	THE SOCIAL CONTRACT	FREEMAN, SAMUEL	STITELER HALL B6	MW 1200PM-0100PM	This is a critical survey of the history of western modern political philosophy, beginning from the Early Modern period and concluding with the 19th or 20th Century. Our study typically begins with Hobbes and ends with Mill or Rawls. The organizing theme of our inventigation will be the idea of the Social Contract. We will examine different contract theories as well as criticisms and proposed alternatives to the contract idea, such as utilitarianism. Besides the above, examples of authors we will read are Locke, Rousseau, Hume, Mill and Marx.	PPE 008401	Society sector (all classes)	SECTION ACTIVITY CO-REQUISITE REQUIRED; SOCIETY SECTOR
PHIL 025-601	PHILOS OF SCIENCE: EVOL SCIENTIFIC THOUGHT	KRUT-LANDAU, RAPHAEL	MCNEIL BUILDING 167-8	W 0600PM-0900PM	What counts as a scientific theory? What counts as evidence for a scientific theory? Are scientific inferences justified? Does science give us truths or approximate truths about a world that exists independently of us? How can we know? Does it matter? These are all perennial questions in the philosophy of science, and the goal of this course is to look at how philosophers have answered these questions since the scientific revolution. In addition to reading classic work by philosophers of science, we will read material from living and dead scientists in order to gain a deeper appreciation of the philosophical questions that have troubled the most brilliant scientists in Western science.		Nat Sci & Math Sector (new curriculum only)	NATURAL SCIENCE & MATH SECTOR
PHIL 026-401	PHILOSOPHY OF SPACE AND TIME	DOMOTOR, ZOLTAN	STITELER HALL B21	MWF 1100AM-1200PM	This course provides an introduction to the philosophy and intellectual history of space-time and cosmological models from ancient to modern times with special emphasis on paradigm shifts, leading to Einstein's theories of special and general relativity and cosmology. Other topics include Big Bang, black holes stellar structure, the metaphysics of substance, particles, fields, and superstrings, unification and grand unification of modern physical theories. No philosophy of physics background is presupposed.	STSC026401	Nat Sci & Math Sector (new curriculum only)	NATURAL SCIENCE & MATH SECTOR
PHIL 032-301	CONTEMPORARY PHIL: Enhancing the Human Mind through Technology	PURPURA, GARY	WILLIAMS HALL 741	MW 0330PM-0500PM	Transhumanists seek to extend the capacities of the human mind beyond the bounds of the human brain and body through technology. Indeed, for them, such an extension of human thinking and feeling represents the next big step in human cognitive evolution. In this course, we will examine the philosophical conception of a mind that underpins this movement to extend the human mind beyond human biology. Through an examination of the hypothesis that there can be non-biological thinking and feeling, we consider whether technologies that enable or enhance human mental faculties might one day completely supplant the biological machinery of the human body. We will also consider the moral issues surrounding the creation of transhumans. The questions that we consider in this course will get to the heart of what it means to possess a human mind and indeed to be a human being.			FRESHMAN SEMINAR; FRESHMAN SEMINAR
PHIL 044-401	INTRO COGNITIVE SCIENCE	BRAINARD, DAVID UNGAR, LYLE	TOWNE BUILDING 100	TR 0130PM-0300PM	Scope and limits of computer representation of knowledge, belief and perception, and the nature of cognitive processes from a computational prespective.	CIS 140401 COGS001401 LING105401 PPE 140401 PSYC207401		SECTION ACTIVITY CO-REQUISITE REQUIRED; FORMAL REASONING COURSE; PERMISSION NEEDED FROM INSTRUCTOR; FORMAL REASONING
PHIL 045-301	Animal Cognition & Ethics	CHANG, SHEREEN	WILLIAMS HALL 219	MW 0330PM-0500PM	In this course, we will examine philosophical issues in nonhuman animal cognition. We will consider questions such as the following: Do nonhuman animals use concepts? How do we assess different interpretations of their behaviour? What is the role of anthropomorphism in thinking about nonhuman animal cognition? How are intelligence and sociality related?			COMMUNICATION WITHIN THE CURRICULUM
PHIL 050-401	INTRODUCTION TO INDIAN PHILOSOPHY	PATEL, DEVEN	FISHER-BENNETT HALL 401	MW 0100PM-0200PM	This course is an introduction to philosophy written in the Islamic world. Our primary focus is the classical period of Islamic thought, spanning roughly 800 to 1200 C.E. We begin with the religious and political context of the early Islamic world out of which emerged some of the lasting intellectural concerns and questions of the Islamic tradition. We then study the works of some of the most important thinkers of the classical period, including al-Farabi, Ibn Sina, al-Ghazali, Ibn Rushd, and Ibn-Tufayl. The readings are (for the most part) in chronological order, but each of the authors is treated thematically. Representative topics include: whether the world is eternal; theories of causation; what it is to know something; the distinction between essence and existence; whether philosophy (or science) and religion are in harmony or conflict; animal ethics.	RELS155401 SAST150401	History & Tradition Sector (all classes)	SECTION ACTIVITY CO-REQUISITE REQUIRED; CROSS CULTURAL ANALYSIS; HISTORY & TRADITION SECTOR; CROSS-CULTURAL ANALYSIS
PHIL 067-401	19TH CENTURY PHILOSOPHY: NIETZSCHE'S MODERNITY	FLEISHMAN, IAN	WILLIAMS HALL 421	MW 0200PM-0330PM	"God is dead." this famous, all too famous death sentence, issued by the 19th-century German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, also signaled the genesis of a radical challenge to traditional notions of morality, cultural life, and the structure of society as a whole. In this course we will examine both the "modernity" of Nietzsche's thought and the ways in which his ideas have helped to define the very concept of Modernity (and, arguable, Postmodernity) itself. In exploring the origin and evolution of Nietzsche's key concepts, we will trace the ways in which his work has been variously revered or refuted, championed or co-opted, for more than a century. We will survey his broad influence on everything from philosophy and literature to music and art, theater and psychology, history and cultural theory, politics and popular culture. Further, we will ask how his ideas continue to challenge us today, though perhaps in unexpected ways. As we will see, Nietzsche wanted to teach us "how to philosophize with a hammer."	COML268401 GRMN248401
PHIL 072-601	BIOMEDICAL ETHICS	PARKER, HAROLD	CLAUDIA COHEN HALL 392	T 0600PM-0900PM	This course is an introduction to bioethics, focusing on ethical questions arising at the beginning and end of life. Topics will include procreative responsibilities, the question of wrongful life, and prenatal moral status as well as questions of justice related to markets for sperm, eggs and gestation. We will also attend to dilemmas at the end of life, including the authority of advance directives, euthanasia and the allocation of life-saving therapies.		Society sector (all classes)	SOCIETY SECTOR
PHIL 073-301	TOPICS IN ETHICS: PHILOSOPHY OF LOVE & SEX	GIBBONS, SARAH	CLAUDIA COHEN HALL 392	TR 1030AM-1200PM	This course examines some of the central theoretical and applied questions of ethics. For example, what is the good life? By what measure or principles do we evaluate the rightness and wrongness of actions? How does ethical reasoning help us understand and address real world problems such as world hunger, social injustice, sex and race discrimination, allocation of scare resources and the like. The course can be organized around an applied topic or practical issue such as global ethics, just war, biomedical ethics or environmental ethics.
PHIL 074-301	BUSINESS ETHICS	BARNETT, MARIE	CLAUDIA COHEN HALL 493	MW 0430PM-0600PM	In this course we will begin by examining practical ethical dilemmas facing businesses. Since usually people, not businesses, face ethical quandaries, we will consider how a business can face an ethical dilemma at all. Maybe it doesn't even make sense to attribute responsibilities, liabilities, or agency to corporations. If businesses do indeed have moral responsibilities, perhaps that means that employees have corresponding rights against their employers. With a better understanding of how the ethical world intersects with the business world, we can thoughtfully discuss the place of the corporation in society.
PHIL 077-001	PHILOSOPHY OF LAW	CASTELLITTO, PAUL	FISHER-BENNETT HALL 419	MW 1100AM-1200PM	This course is an introduction to the Philosophy of law. The central question of the course is this: why have law? Answering that question requires engaging with another question: what is law? We will approach those two questions in a variety of ways throughout the semester. In the first section of the course, we will begin by discussing one important feature of law: its close connection to coercion and punishment. Many have argued that the close relationship between law and coercion creates a demand for justification: what can or does justify law, given that law involves coercion? We will explore answers to that question. We will also consider a more general question: what good is law? (if we didn't have law, why might we want it?) The second section of the course engages with these same issues but in more concrete settings: the areas of criminal law and property law. We will consider what, if anything, is distinctive about those two areas of law, and we will consider whether the purported purpose(s) of law in general that we discuss in the first section make more or less sense when we consider these two specific areas of law. We will also consider distinctive aspects of the sources of law in these two areas of law: democratically enacted statutes, in the case of criminal law; and judge-made common law, in the case of property law. The third and final section of the course will consider an unusual and particularly significant kind of law: constitutional law. We will consider the purpose(s) of constitutions, how constitutionalism relates to democracy, and how constitutions ought to be understood and interpreted, in light of our answers to these first two questions. Throughout the course, we will engage with both classic and contemporary work, reading work by Michelle Alexander, Jeremy Bentham, Angela Davis, Ronald Dworkin, John Hart Ely, H.L.A. Hart, Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, John Stuart Mill, Robert Nozick, Martha Nussbaum, Richard Posner, Jeremy Waldron, and others.		Society sector (all classes)	SECTION ACTIVITY CO-REQUISITE REQUIRED; SOCIETY SECTOR
PHIL 079-301	ENVIRONMENTAL ETHICS	KOVAKA, KAREN	CLAUDIA COHEN HALL 237	MW 0330PM-0500PM	In this course we will investigate some of the ethical issues that arise from our relationship with the environment. We will examine important issues in environmental ethics, supplementing our discussions by considering how the latest scientific results affect environmental thinking and policy. Topics covered will include (but not be limited to): What are our responsibilities toward the environment, as individuals and as members of institutions? How do our responsibilities toward the environment relate to other ethical considerations? Do non-human animals/species/ecosystems have intrinsic value? What should conservationists conserve (Conservation vs restoration, keystone species vs ecosystems)?
PHIL 205-001	WHAT IS MEANING?: MIND AND LANGUAGE	MIRACCHI, LISA	ANNENBERG SCHOOL 111	TR 1200PM-0130PM	This course will survey several central topics in philosophy of mind and language, as well as investigate how these areas of philosophy interact with the scientific study of the mind. Among the questions we'll be asking are: What is it to have a mind? What is consciousness? What is it to think, to perceive, to act, to communicate, to feel emotions? What is the relationship between the mind and the brain? Can there be a science of the mind? Of language? What can it tell us? What can philosophy contribute to cognitive science?			SECTION ACTIVITY CO-REQUISITE REQUIRED
PHIL 226-301	PHILOSOPHY OF BIOLOGY: Global Seminar: Evolution's Laboratory	WEISBERG, MICHAEL	PERRY WORLD HOUSE 108	MW 0300PM-0430PM	This course consists of a detailed examination of evolutionary theory and its philosophical foundations. The course begins with a consideration of Darwin's formulation of evolutionary theory and the main influences on Darwin. We will then consider two contemporary presentations of the theory: Richard Dawkins' and Richard Lewontin's. The remainder of the course will deal with a number of foundational issues including adaptation, the units of selections, the evolution of altruism, and the possibility of grounding ethics in evolutionary theory.		Nat Sci & Math Sector (new curriculum only)	NATURAL SCIENCE & MATH SECTOR; PERMISSION NEEDED FROM INSTRUCTOR
PHIL 249-401	PHILOSOPHY OF EDUCATION: AFFIRMATIVE ACTION	SPENCER, QUAYSHAWN	COLLEGE HALL 318	TR 0130PM-0300PM	The philosophy of education asks questions about the foundational assumptions of our formal institutions for the reproduction of culture. It ranges therefore, from epistemology and philosophy of mind to ethics and political philosophy. For instance: What is the nature of learning and teaching? How is it possible to come to know something we did not know already--and how can we aid others in doing that? How, if at all, should formal institutions of education be concerned with shaping students' moral and civic character? What is the proper relation between educational institutions and the state? We also ask questions more specific to our own time and context. For example: how, in a multicultural state, should we educate students of varied social identities, like race, gender, and religion? What is the relationship between education and justice.	GSWS249401
PHIL 280-401	TOPICS IN AESTHETICS	GIBBONS, SARAH		CANCELED	What is beauty? What is the relationship between beauty and goodness? What does aesthetic judgment tell us, if anything, about the world? This course addresses these and other questions by focusing predominantly on Kant's highly influential aesthetic theory. It situates this text in the context of other works on aesthetics. We begin with Plato's view expressed in The Symposium that beauty is a form to which humans gain (some) access through love. We then turn to essays by Shaftesbury and Hume that introduce key aesthetic notions that Kant will elaborate (and revise) -- including those of taste, common sense, harmony, and aesthetic disinterest. We also read selections from the work of Friedrich Schiller, John Dewey, and A. K. Coomaraswamy who offer alternative accounts of the relationship between beauty and ethical life -- a relationship that Kant acknowledges but considers to be importantly limited. The question of the relationship between ethics and aesthetics will form the backdrop for this semester's reading overall.	GRMN280401
PHIL 291-301	PHILOSOPHY OF RACE	SPENCER, QUAYSHAWN	MCNEIL CENTER FOR EARLY AMERI 105	TR 1030AM-1200PM	Historically, philosophical questions about race have been about the nature and reality of race, the nature of racism, and social or political questions related to race or racism. In fitting with that history, the first part of the course will focus on the nature and reality of race, as understood in biology and as understood by ordinary people. We will begin by looking at biological race theories from Francois Bernier in 1684 to Pigliucci and Kaplan in 2003. Next, we will look at the philosophical work that has been done on the nature and reality of race as ordinarily understood in the contemporary United States. We will discuss racial anti-realism, social constructionism about race, and biological racial realism from well-known philosophers of race like Anthony Appiah, Sally Haslanger, and Joshua Glasgow. The second part of the course will focus on the nature of racism and social or political questions related to race or racism. In our discussion of racism, we will cover intrinsic v. extrinsic racism, the volitional account of racism, institutional racism, and implicit racism. In our discussion of social or political issues realted to race or racism, we will address the issue of whether race-based preferential treatment in college admissions is an instance of racism.
PHIL 359-401	SOCIAL NORMS: Social Norms & Institutions	BICCHIERI, CRISTINA	CLAUDIA COHEN HALL 493	T 0130PM-0430PM	This is an undergraduate research seminar covering interdisciplinary research in psychology, philosophy, sociology and behavioral economics related to social norms. Social norms are informal institutions that regulate social life. We will devote particular attention to the following questions: 1. What is a good, operational definition of social norms? 2. Is there a difference between social and moral norms? 3. How can we measure whether a norm exists, and the conditions under which individuals are likely to comply with it? 4. Are behavioral experiments a good tool to answer question 3? 5. How do norms emerge? 6. How are norms abandoned? 7. What is the role of trendsetters in norm dynamics?	PPE 475401		MAJORS ONLY
PHIL 362-401	Kant: Prolegomena and Critique of Pure Reason	HATFIELD, GARY HORSTMANN, ROLF	CLAUDIA COHEN HALL 493	R 0300PM-0600PM	Various topics in 17th-18th century philosophy.	PHIL565401		MAJORS ONLY
PHIL 376-301	JUSTICE	FREEMAN, SAMUEL	CLAUDIA COHEN HALL 493	MW 0300PM-0430PM	The course will focus on contemporary works on liberalism, democracy, capitalism, and distributive justice. Among the questions to be discussed: Which rights and liberties are fundamental in a constitutional democracy? What is equality and what requirements does it impose? Are economic rights of property and freedom of contract equally important as personal liberties of speech, religion, and association? Does capitalism realize a just distribution of income and wealth? What is socialism and is it potentially just, or necessarily unjust? Readings from works by John Rawls, Robert Nozick, Milton Friedman, and others.
PHIL 407-301	ARISTOTLE: ARISTOTLE'S PSYCHOLOGY	HAHMANN, ANDREE	CLAUDIA COHEN HALL 204	TR 0130PM-0300PM	A study of Aristotle's main writings on language, reality, knowledge, nature and psychology. All texts will be read in English translation. No background in Greek philosophy or knowledge of Greek is required, although previous work in philosophy is strongly recommended.
PHIL 410-401	Introduction to Logic & Computability	WEINSTEIN, SCOTT	CLAUDIA COHEN HALL 493	TR 0900AM-1030AM	Propositional logic: semantics, formal deductions, resolution method. First order logic: validity, models, formal deductions; Godel's completeness theorem, Lowenheim-Skolem theorem: cut-elimination, Herbrand's theorem, resolution method. Computability: finite automata, Turing machines, Godel's incompleteness theorems. Algorithmically unsolvable problems in mathematics.	LGIC310401 MATH570401
PHIL 423-401	PHIL & VISUAL PERCEPTION	HATFIELD, GARY	CLAUDIA COHEN HALL 493	TR 1030AM-1200PM	The course starts with some central issues in the philosophy of perception from the modern period, which many include what we perceive, the meaningful content of perception, and its relation to a mind-independent external world. It will then focus on two or three more specific topics, yet to be chosen. These may include: (1) color perception and color metaphysics; (2) object perception in its interplay between Gestalt organizational factors and background knowledge; (3) the role of ecological regularities in the formation of our visual system and in the ongoing tuning of the system to the environment; (4) the geometry of visual space and the phenomenology of visual appearances of size and shape; (5) the problem of how visual scenes are experienced by means of images and the representational relation between images and things imaged, including the characteristics of linear perspective and its status as arbitrary convention or optically and naturally based system. Readings from authors such as Bertrand Russell, R. W. Sellars, Tim Crane, Evan Thompson, Robert Swartz, Wolfgang Metzger, Nelson Goodman, Richard Wollheim, and William Hopp, among others.	VLST223401
PHIL 425-401	PHILOSOPHY OF PHYSICS	DOMOTOR, ZOLTAN	WILLIAMS HALL 723	MW 0200PM-0330PM	This self-contained course (presupposing no substantive prior background in philosophy nor any extensive knowledge of science) provides an advanced introduction to the central philosophical questions concerning the nature of scientific knowledge and its relation to experience, and the metaphysical assumptions underlying the natural sciences. Topics to be covered include: science versus pseudoscience, laws of nature, causation, determinism and randomness, theories and models in science, scientific explanation, underdetermination of theories by observation and measurement, realism and antirealism, reductionism and intertheory relations, objectivity and value judgments in science, hypothesis testing and confirmation of scientific theories, and classical paradoxes in scientific methodology.	STSC325401
PHIL 430-301	PHILOSOPHY OF MIND: Artificial Intelligence	MIRACCHI, LISA	JAFFE BUILDING 113	TR 0300PM-0430PM	This course studies particular topics in contemporary philosophy of mind and cognitive science. Examples include: the nature of consciousness, naturalistic accounts of intentionality, the nature scope of scientific explanation in studying the mind, the intersection of philosophy of mind and epistemology, and theories of agency. Typically, readings include both philosophy and empirical work from relevant sciences. Prerequisites: This course will be most suitable for advanced undergraduates and graduate students in philosophy or related sciences; others need instructor's permission.			PERMISSION NEEDED FROM INSTRUCTOR
PHIL 450-301	African, Latin American & Native American Philosophy	GUERRERO, ALEXANDER		CANCELED	This course is an introduction to philosophical work from Africa, Latin America, and the indigenous peoples of North America, coverning topics in ethics, metaphysics, epistemology, philosophy of mind, aesthetics, social philosophy, and political philosophy. The course aims to give work from these traditions greater exposure and to provide a chance for students to enounter work that might spark an interst in future research. We will cover in some depth views held by Akan, Axtec, Blackfoot, Dogon, Iroquois, Lakota, Navajo, Ojibwa, and Yoruba peoples. We will also read work by a number of philosophers, including: Kwame Anthony Appiah, Kwame Gyekye, Julius Nyerere, Sor Juanna Ines de la Cruz, Simon Bolivar, Jose Marti, Jose Vasconcelos, Enrique Dussel, Gregory Cajete, Anne Waters, and many others. Throughout, we will also engage with related meta-philosophical issues that emerge with work from all three areas, allowing for interesting cross-discussion. Are these really proper fubfields of philosophy? How do we make sense of the idea of African (or Latin American, or Native American) Philosophy as a field? Are there philosophically important differences between oral traditions and written traditions? How should we understand ethnophilosophy and cultural worldviews as philosophical contributions? How should we think of the "sage" figure in relation to philosophy? How do these traditions engage discussions of identity, autonomy, and post-colonialism? Should this work be incorporated into the mainstream philosophical canon?
PHIL 467-401	TOPICS IN HIST OF PHIL: Topics in Early Modern Philosophy	DETLEFSEN, KAREN	CLAUDIA COHEN HALL 493	TR 1200PM-0130PM	In this course, we will study figures and themes from the 17th through the 18th centuries, an especially fertile period in the history of philosophy. Topics will vary from year to year. Please see individual course descriptions.	GRMN567401
PHIL 480-401	TOPICS IN AESTHETICS: HANNAH ARENDT	WEISSBERG, LILIANE	VAN PELT LIBRARY 627	T 0300PM-0500PM	Walter Benjamin: Art, Philosophy, Literature. Walter Benjamin (1892-1940) is a philosopher whose writings on art, literature, and politics have had tremendous influence on cultural studies. He has been variously described as one of the leading German-Jewish thinkers, and a secular Marxist theorist. With the publication of a new four-volume collection of his works in English, many more of his writings have been made accessible to a wider public. Our seminar will undertake a survey of his work that begins with his studies on language and allegory, and continues with his autobiographical work, his writings on art and literature, and finally on the imaginary space of the nineteenth-century.	ARTH560401 COML582401 GRMN580401 JWST582401
PHIL 506-401	FORMAL LOGIC II	WEINSTEIN, SCOTT	FISHER-BENNETT HALL 140	TR 1200PM-0130PM	An introduction to first-order logic including the completeness, compactness, and Lowenheim-Skolem theorems, and Godel's incompleteness theorems. UNDERGRADUATES NEED PERMISSION	PHIL006401		UNDERGRADUATES NEED PERMISSION
PHIL 526-640	Philosophy and Psychoanalysis: Freud and the Interpretation of Culture	STEINBERG, STEPHEN	VAN PELT LIBRARY 625	M 0600PM-0900PM	The seminar will consider selected episodes in the interaction between philosophy and psychology. It starts with an intensive study of Descartes' machine psychology (in the Treatise on Man), which should complicate our picture of the history of such interactions. We then proceed, partly in response to student interest, to interactions involving Kant and nineteenth-century Kantians, Rylean "behaviorism", and recent work on the embodied mind (Wheeler, others).
PHIL 565-401	Kant: Prolegomena and Critique of Pure Reason	HATFIELD, GARY HORSTMANN, ROLF	CLAUDIA COHEN HALL 493	R 0300PM-0600PM	A study of Kant's critique of metaphysics and theory of regulative ideas in the"Transcendental Dialectic" and related texts such as CRITIQUE OF JUDGEMENT, ONLY POSSIBLE PROOF OF THE EXISTENCE OF GOD, and LECTURES ON PHILOSOPHICAL THEOLOGY. Collateral readings in such authors as Descartes, Leibniz, Spinoza, Wolff, Baumgarten, Mendelssohn, Bayle, and Hume.	PHIL362401		UNDERGRADUATES NEED PERMISSION
PHIL 600-301	PROSEMINAR	LORD, ERROL	CLAUDIA COHEN HALL 204	T 0300PM-0600PM	An intensive seminar for first-year doctoral students, with readings drawn from recent and contemporary eistemology and metaphysics, broadly construed. Students will develop their abilities to present and discuss philosophical texts, and to write and revise their own papers.
PHIL 601-001	PHILOSOPHY CONSORTIUM	FREEMAN, SAMUEL		TBA TBA-	For graduate students taking courses at other institutions belonging to the Philadelphia area Philosophical Consortium.
PHIL 700-301	DISSERTATION WORKSHOP	MEYER, SUSAN	CLAUDIA COHEN HALL 493	T 0430PM-0630PM	Registration required for all third-year doctoral students. Fourth year students and beyond attend and present their work in the Dissertation Seminar. From time to time, topics pertaining to professional development and dissertation writing will be discussed.			FOR PHD STUDENTS ONLY